Grutzendler disagreed that this is a semantics issue. The cells on precapillary arterioles have a typical smooth muscle cell shape, with circumferential bands wrapping the vessel, he noted. “Utilizing ...

Smooth muscle fibers have an oblong shape, much like a football ... Cardiac muscle fibers have their own rhythm. Special cells, called pacemaker cells, generate the impulses that cause cardiac ...

Smooth muscle cells make up thin sheets of muscle ... They are a flat disc shape with dips on both sides (biconcave) which gives them a large surface area. Nerve cells are thin and long so ...

Uterine fibroids (also called myomas or leiomyomas) are benign (noncancerous) tumors in muscle tissue that can change the shape or size of your uterus and sometimes your cervix. Fibroids occur when a ...

The heart pumps blood through the vascular system, supplying cells with oxygen and energy Smooth muscle cells in the vessels finely regulate the blood flow. If they cannot perform their task ...

The dozens of cell types that make up our body range in size and shape from small ... just our skeletal muscle cells that change size — when a woman is pregnant the smooth muscle cells of ...